My friend @veryhotmomm.bsky.social joined me and (my friend!) @jolivingstone.bsky.social to talk about Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, political disappointments, simply living for dick, etc. Also, I need everyone to read In the Cut, NOW! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Delving into the podcast Reading Writers with their episode on The Sluts, which I'm loving this far. (And I had no idea about the Daryl crossover that @jolivingstone.bsky.social mentioned! Mind: blown.) shows.acast.com/reading-writ...
Come and get it: @essj.bsky.social + @jolivingstone.bsky.social + me, Tolstoy, the Bible, horny Frenchmen, I could go on!
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yet more impressed (neutral valence) following the @jolivingstone.bsky.social / @charoshane.bsky.social / Wambugu convo about Perfection by its mere existence: what is Latronico up to? does he take himself to be updating Things, as films are remade periodically, and nothing more? Things is in print
My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures.
www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/
My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures.
www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/
💜💔💜
US Park Service pulls human rights activist Pauli Murray page after Trump’s 2-gender order
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If I were still a weekly critic I’d be pitching an article rn about all the new books and movies about letting yourself be slowly eaten alive by a creature
The Persian poet Ferdowsi described a prince who, shielded by Truth, rode horseback through fire without coming to harm. www.thestopgap.net/tuesday-obit...
Here’s something I wrote in 2019 about how hard it is to repair what trump is breaking newrepublic.com/article/1543...
I thought a god-botherer was bothering god but now I find it’s people who bother you about god in the street
In case you were thinking that kids in NYC were, somehow, safe from all this hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...
If you could live through this century without becoming radicalized then you are human runway
Was the same pre-Iraq. They just didn’t want to be seen as emotional weirdos. The weakest minds
Fashion?! God it pisses me off how the nice liberals joined the “xyz has gone too far” backlash in order to feel culturally normal and now are panicking over the mystery
Legend
A star!!!
Melt Julep Superfecta: a series of digital and analog photographs from the 2024 Kentucky Derby. Also for @jolivingstone.bsky.social at the the Stopgap.
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2024 ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ʀᴇᴄᴀᴘ (reverse chrono):
Summer Camera Diary September
for The Stopgap, editor @jolivingstone.bsky.social
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Ehehehehe
You’re allowed to do anything
Today I sat in on a friend’s doctoral defense and one of the examiners was a historian who, having absorbing that hauntology was part of her argument, tried angrily for 30 mins to get her to admit that ghosts aren’t real. She did a fake “ok you got me!” concession & he was like fab lets move on
tech reporters you have new obligations that I’m not sure you’re equipped to meet
Big problem going on with the pronunciation of ‘corset’
Do republicans like Neil young. Genuinely
Slipping opus anglicanum in wherever I can
